A summer morning on the beach promenade, a breeze is blowing across the Baltic Sea, mice are squawking and Wolfgang Schewe is walking to work at the Hotel Am Meer. It is his hotel. He opened it in 1995, even though he was an engineer, not a hotelier, and earned his money as an ice cream wholesaler. Nevertheless, he invested in a hotel. Because Schewe had understood one thing: In pioneering times, you can't be timid. You have to follow your gut instinct.
Wolfgang Schewe and the next generation
His gut feeling and the development
It was a big project, with 60 rooms, and Schewe says that he slept badly at the time. Deep down, however, he always knew that he would make it. And at the latest when he saw how the first guests felt, it was finally clear to him: he was on the right track.
For the good and the beautiful
View into the rooms of the "Hotel Am Meer"
Schewe was and is passionate about his work. Sometimes, during a conversation, he literally runs his fingers over the tabletop, as if something inside him is delighted by the fine grain of the wood.
He always had a special sense for spaces, furniture and materials. But then he graduated in engineering, left the former GDR for political reasons and only returned to his home island of Rügen in 1990.
In Binz, Schewe opened a second hotel in 2018: the Boutique Hotel Nixe with a fine spa and first-class restaurant, which he opened in a listed Art Nouveau villa. It is located where the white Binzer Bäder architecture shines brightest: on the beach promenade. Wolfgang Schewe likes the beach promenade, but also the quiet corners of Binz. The fishing beach. The beech forest that begins there and stretches up the coast. But his favorite place is the Blue Moon Lounge, right at the top of the „Hotel Am Meer“, a place for looking outwards and inwards. Just as it should be for a pioneer.
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©© MV-T/Gohlke Pier Binz
- 18609 Binz
The Binz pier on the Island of Rügen, with a length of 370 meters, is the second longest pier on Rügen after the Sellin pier.
- Read more: "DJH Youth Hostel Binz"
©© Grabowski/luftbildruegen.de DJH Youth Hostel Binz
- Strandpromenade, 18609 Binz
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- Read more: "Spa square Binz"
©© Tourismuszentrale Rügen Spa square Binz
- Strandpromenade, 18609 Ostseebad Binz
The spa square in Binz - the center of the Binz beach promenade.
- Read more: "Suite Hotel Binz"
©© Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Binz GmbH Suite Hotel Binz
- Zeppelinstraße, 18609 Binz
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- Read more: "Hotel Four Seasons Binz"
©© MV-T/Tiemann Hotel Four Seasons Binz
- Zeppelinstraße, 18609 Binz
The most important data at a glance: 76 hotel rooms and suites, 42 apartments- centrally located in the historic center of Binz, only 100 meters to the beach, three restaurants (one of which is a star restaurant), terrace cafe & hotel bar, 710 sqm wellness: swimming pool, sauna area, beauty and fitness area.
- Read more: "Jagdschlossexpress + Binz Spa Railway"
©© Tourismuszentrale Rügen Jagdschlossexpress + Binz Spa Railway
- Rondell an der Seebrücke, 18609 Binz
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- Read more: "Beach Hotel on the Promenade"
©© Strandhotel zur Promenade Beach Hotel on the Promenade
- Strandpromenade, 18609 Binz
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- Read more: "The “Granitzhaus“ and exhibition"
©© Bildarchiv Biosphärenreservatsamt-Südost-Rügen The “Granitzhaus“ and exhibition
- Open today
- Jagdschloss Granitz, 18609 Binz
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- Read more: "A-ROSA Hotel Ceres by the Sea - Adults Only"
©© DSR Hotel Holding A-ROSA Hotel Ceres by the Sea - Adults Only
- Strandpromenade, 18609 Binz
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- Read more: "Hotel Villa Schwanebeck"
©© Franke Hotel Villa Schwanebeck
- Margaretenstrasse, 18609 Binz
The cozy-small hotel is a Binz-typical bathing style villa, it is quietly and centrally located in Alt-Binz, only 50 m to the famous beach promenade. Spacious double rooms, small suites and single rooms available.
- Read more: "Rescue tower Binz"
Rescue tower Binz
- Strandpromenade (Strandzugang 6), 18609 Ostseebad Binz
A romantic place for "yes" sayers. The rescue tower at beach access 6 in Binz on the island of Rügen.
- Read more: "freestyle"
©© Ralf Haug freestyle
- Zeppelinstraße, 18609 Binz
Boutique hotel in Binz on Rügen, 21 rooms, starred restaurant, wellness area, 300m to the sea.
- Read more: "Pleasure workshop Binz"
©© Hotel Arkona Dr. Hutter eK Pleasure workshop Binz
- Temporarily closed
- Strandpromenade, 18609 Binz
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- Read more: "Baltic resort Binz municipality spa administration"
©© Tourismuszentrale Rügen Baltic resort Binz municipality spa administration
- Open today
- Heinrich-Heine-Straße, 18609 Binz
The spa administration of the municipality Baltic resort Binz is located in the Haus des Gastes. There you will find the tourist information, event rooms, the wedding room, a game room, a reading corner and public internet access.
- Read more: "Protestant Church Binz"
Protestant Church Binz
- Bahnhofstraße, 18609 Binz
The Protestant church in Binz is situated on a hill and surrounded by beech forest.
